From: MENON Jean-Francois <jean-francois.menon@...>
Date: 2002-11-11T04:12:11+09:00
Subject: Re: sound under windows

Bill Kelly wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> From: "MENON Jean-Francois" <jean-francois.menon@meteo.fr>
> > hello,
> > what is the good way for output simple sounds with Ruby under windows ?
> > I looked in the RAA but it seems to be only libs for linux
> 
> One way is to use Win32API:
> 
> SND_MEMORY   = 0x00000004   # from "mmsystem.h"
> SND_FILENAME = 0x00020000
> 
> PlaySound = Win32API.new("winmm", "PlaySound", ['P', 'L', 'L'], 'I')
> 
> # play from file:
> PlaySound.call("C:/your/sound.wav", 0, SND_FILENAME)
> 
> # play from memory:
> wav = File.open("C:/your/sound.wav", File::RDONLY) {|f| f.binmode; f.read }
> PlaySound.call(wav, 0, SND_MEMORY)
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Bill

thank you very much :->
I don't know if it is planned for future releases of Ruby, but I think
it would be good to have a standard (platform independent) way to play
wav files with ruby.

regards,
jf